Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.